Getting much spin:
Astra - Black Chord
Big Big Train - English Electric Pt.1
Frequency Drift - Laid To Rest
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made
Squackett - A Life Within A Day
Taylor's Universe - Kind Of Red
The Sea & Cake - Runner
Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk
Muse - The 2nd Law
Mystery Jets - Radlands
Aimee Mann - Charmer
ZZ Top - La Future
Ultravox - Brilliant
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy

Just OK:
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Ben Folds Five - The Sound of The Life of The Mind
Grizzly Bear - Shields
The Gathering - Disclosure
The Killers - Battle Born
The Darkness - Hot Cakes
Keane - Strangeland

Top 5:
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Zeus - Busting Visions
David Byrne & St.Vincent - Love This Giant
Pinback - Information Retrieved

meh:
The Pineapple Thief - All The Wars
Anathema - Weather Systems
Izz--Crush of Night

What ifs, maybes and might-have-beens award:
Ian Anderson : TAAB 2 (Whatever Happened To Gerald Bostock)